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When we reached the inn, Noelle was there--apparently Jeremy saved her as
well. Dammit, how come he gets all the glory?
Noelle told us that she had come here on the Highwind, but the Highwind's
flightstone had been taken away, so it can only travel on the water now. But
at least it gives us a way to get around.
The thing Jeremy had for us was a book sent by Sion--Emrls called it a
forbidden text, and said it was a history book about the Dawn Age. Emrls' the
only one among us who could understand it, so we left it to him, and decided
to spend the night at the inn.
We learned some important information from the forbidden text. Let's see
if I can summarize it.
Our current problem is that the Sephiroth are out of control, and the
Outer Lands are facing the threat of collapse. We don't even know the reason
for the behavior of the Sephiroth. At this rate, all of humanity could die.
In order to avoid that, one thing we could do is lower the entire Outer
Lands into the Qliphoth, like we did with Konoha. There's still the
problem of the miasma, but in any case, the Outer Lands used to be in the
Qliphoth, so we'd just be returning Auldrant to its original form.
But even if we do that, the out-of-control Sephiroth won't be able to keep
the land afloat forever, and it'll eventually sink into the liquefied crust
of the Qliphoth. So we'll have to solidify the crust first.
Basically, we have to find a way to solidify the crust and then lower the
Outer Lands.
So why did the crust of the Qliphoth turn liquid in the first place? The
forbidden text had an answer for that.
It says that the cause of the liquefaction is the Planet Storm, an
important facility that carries energy throughout the world. The Planet Storm
is causing the core to vibrate, and those vibrations are resonating
throughout the planet. But if we stopped the Planet Storm, fonic artes and
fontech would be drastically weakened, and we'd lose a lot of resources, so
that's not an option. As an alternative, the book described research that had
been done on stopping the core's vibration while leaving the Planet Storm
active. But since it wasn't written in the Score, nobody until now has paid
attention to either the core's vibration or the possibility of Planet Storm
stopping.
The Score may have been an absolute before, but now there's a good chance
it's not even functioning anymore. I think we should go ahead and stop the
core's vibration to solidify the crust, then lower the Outer Lands.
In order to stop the core's vibration, we'll need to recreate a fon
machine based on the forbidden text, so we'll need help from researchers. The
researchers here are all under the eye of Master Kyo or Father...it'll be too
dangerous to ask them. But then Christian said he had a thought, and suggested
looking for someone named Hencken at the fon machine laboratory. Let's go see
if we can find him.
We found Hencken in the laboratory. At first he refused to help us, but
the instant we mentioned the name of Iemon, from Sheridan, his mood changed
completely. He even volunteered to talk the governor into helping keep the
research secret from Master Kyo. Apparently there's some sort of rivalry
between Iemon and Hencken. Christian knew about it and used it to convince Hencken
to help. He and his partner Cathy ran off to the governor's mansion even
before we were able to explain what we wanted. Oh well, let's go follow them.
The governor of Belkend is subordinate to Father. I was worried that he'd
report us, but Hencken and Cathy handled the situation well, so that the
problem was taken care of. But before they can construct the actual device,
they said they need to know the core's vibration frequency. In order to
measure that, we'll have to find a Sephiroth Tree that's still supporting the
Outer Lands, but the only Sephiroth we know are the ones we already lowered
into the Qliphoth. (Actually, it seems that the locations of the Sephiroth
themselves are known, but not the locations of the passage rings.)
So it's time to ask Sion again. He should have the Daathic seal protecting
them.
We left the construction of the measuring device to Hencken and Cathy, and
left for Daath to pick up Sion.
When we left the governor's mansion, we saw Spinoza outside--he'd been
listening in on us. He got away, undoubtedly to tell Master Kyo of what we're
planning.
Our plans would probably cause problems for Master Kyo, and more than
anything, he's got the laboratory under his control, so Hencken and Cathy
could be in danger. We were about to chase after Spinoza, but then Jeremy said
he'd take care of Spinoza, so we should go and get Sion. Something about the
way he said it made me really mad, and I started arguing with him.
Eventually it was decided that Jeremy would go after Spinoza and we'd see to
Ion...but to be honest, I want to find Spinoza myself. Before Jeremy does. I
can't stand losing to him.
I will head for Daath...but you guys don't mind a little side trip, right?
 Foxraikov · Mon May 28, 2007 @ 07:17am · 0 Comments |
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